Refuge de Tuquerouye
| Refuge de Tuquerouye CAF hut |
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| location | Hautes-Pyrénées department , Huesca province ; France , Spain | |
| Mountain range | Monte Perdido , Pyrenees | |
| Geographical location: | 42 ° 41 '51.4 " N , 0 ° 2' 24.4" E | |
| Altitude | 2666 m | |
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| owner | Club Alpin Français section Lourdes Cauterets | |
| Built | August 5, 1890 | |
| Construction type | hut | |
| accommodation | 0 beds, 12 camps | |
The Refuge de Tuquerouye or Refuge Lourde-Rocheblave German Tuquerouye refuge is a refuge in the Pyrenees , it is located on the Tuquerouye breach ( 2666 m ), with a view of the Monte Perdido , in the central area of the Pyrenees National Park . It is the oldest and the tallest in the Pyrenees.
history
The Tuquerouye refuge was designed by Léonce Lourde-Rocheblave, a Pyrenean woman from Bordeaux. The principle of construction is called ogival, based on the integration into the landscape, the greatest possible resistance in the difficult conditions of the high mountains and the technical construction conditions, for which it is necessary to avoid the transport of materials as much as possible from the exterior. So it is a massive construction made of stones taken on site, which forms a broken barrel vault. There are few openings, the main thing being to create a solid and easy-to-heat shelter. Lourdes-Rocheblave signed an agreement with the entrepreneur Fournou from Gavarnie. The necessary materials were collected by mules to the foot of the Tuquerouye Corridor and then lifted to the break by Gavarnie guides. The building was inaugurated on August 5, 1890. A few days later, the tour guide François Bernat-Salles climbed on his back from Gavarnie, the statue of the 75-kilo Virgin that was to be placed above the refuge. In 1927 the architect Touzin expanded the refuge by simply building a building identical to the first. The hut was renovated in 1999, the roof was renewed in 2005. A plaque sealed in the wall of the quarry commemorates the memory of Louis Robach (1871–1959), who climbed Mount Perdu 43 times.
Accesses
The refuge is not manned. It offers 12 permanent places, blankets and mattresses, and a multi-fuel stove. It is managed by the Lourdes section of the Club Alpin Français .
Access is from France, from Gavarnie via Les Espuguettes and La Hourquette d'Alans from Gèdre and Héas, via the Gloriettes dam and the Cirque d'Estaubé . Then you have to go up the Tuquerouye Corridor, 300m of snow (or scree in summer) with a steep slope that requires the use of crampons and good technique.
bibliography
- Gérard Raynaud, Tuquerouye, balcon du Mont-Perdu , éditions Monhélios, 2015
Web links
- FFCAM.fr: Refuge de Tuquerouye (French)
- Camptocamp.org: Refuge de Tuquerouye (French)
- Tanukiwo: Refuge de Tuquerouye (French)
- Outdooractive.com: Refuge de Tuquerouye (German)